June 16, 2009
When asked, “Do you think that people may underestimate your talent being an artist from this area(DC)?”
Diggz replied, “Definitely we are the most slept on in the world within the rap game.. We are the only major market that hasn’t anybody that can be on a national stage that can truly represent us. Any other rapper in a major city has someone to look up to. Like people in Atlanta have someone they can look up to and pattern their style after that individual since they are already in the game. NY has Jay-Z, Nas and Biggie where people can follow in their footsteps and that particular style has been accepted. Us being from DC we don’t have really anyone that made it, so everyone sounds difference and some people pattern their style after rappers from other regions and they may not be accepted because they are not from there. Our sound is go-go, but most go-go music involves rapping other people’s verses over a beat. There is nothing wrong with that, but no one will look at DC and say oh that city has good MC’s there.”
-taken from a interview conducted by MMIM
May 19, 2009
“Just because I’m losing, doesn’t mean I’m lost, doesn’t mean I’ll stop, doesn’t mean I’m across. Just because I’m hurting, doesn’t mean I’m hurt, doesn’t mean I didn’t get what I deserved, no better and no worse. I just got lost.
Every river that I tried to cross, every door I ever tried was locked. Oh and I’m just waiting til the shine wears off.”
April 27, 2009
“They don’t know their language. They don’t know their God. They take what their given. Even whan it feels odd. They say their grandfathers and grandmothers work hard for nothing and we still in this ghetto. So they end up in prisons, they end up in blood.”
~Twinkle, New Amerykah Part One
April 8, 2009
“I think that there’s a lot of feel-good music in the south, but in today’s R&B, you don’t have that real joy to me. Motown made people feel things, and these days, I don’t see the tears, the love or the emotion. Slow dancing is missing for the young kids now, and I want to bring those good feelings back. There’s a place for everything, so I don’t really criticize anybody’s music because I listen to it all, but urban black music is the music that everybody in the world likes, whether they’re black, white, latino, whatever they are. Look at Lil Wayne, that’s as black as you can get, but it’s also the most pop that it could be, because he’s doing himself since the very beginning.”
-excerpt from an Interview done by Soultracks
March 25, 2009
“It’s probably plain to see, that I got a whole lot of pain in me. And it will always remain in me. So cold, it’s a cryin shame, yet here I am, trying again because I refuse to die in vain. The circumstances put soul in me and there ain’t no holding me. I’ve got a heart made of gold in me. Can you believe this is where I’ve been? And when adversity comes again, I’ll deal with it then.”
~Gnarls Barkley “A Little Better”
March 17, 2009
“I had to go through the whole battle of being an white MC and being classified as either Eminem or the Beastie Boys- and I have to say, no, I’m Asher Roth. If you put enough of yourself out there, its easy to distinguish yourself as an individual.”
-Asher Roth in a interview to MTV
March 10, 2009
“Get me, get me, out of this box I feel so claustrophobic in here. Leave your labels lead with no vision, hear my voice and fill with your ears. I’m no soul girl equipped with no afro, I’m just my God given name. I’m not becoming expectations, I’m not her and never will be. Two girls gone in different directions traveling towards the same galaxy. Let my starlight shine on it’s own, I’m no sister, I’m just my God given name.”
March 3, 2009
“So many people get so caught up in trying to remake their first album. And its impossible for me to make another College Dropout, but I can make the best Graduation or best the 808’s that I can make. That’s how I think you keep advancing as a artist. So few Hip Hop artists have advanced. Their songs on their 7th or 8th album sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than a artist, I’m a real person, and real people grow.”
-From VH1 Storytellers
